SIX MEISSEN COBALT-BLUE GROUND RETICULATED CABINET PLATES

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND VARIOUS IMPRESSED NUMBERS

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SIX MEISSEN COBALT-BLUE GROUND RETICULATED CABINET PLATES
Late 19th century, blue crossed swords and various impressed numbers
Each finely painted in colours with a scene, A Philosopher, after Dow, A Violin Player, after Gerard Dow, A Man Drawing in Book, after Gerard Dow, Der Trompeter, nach Gerard, Die Klavierspielerin, von Caspar Netscher and Der Schreibemeister nach Gerard Dow, reserved on the blue ground within a band of alternating gilt diamonds and flowerheads, a further band of stylized flowers, the shaped rims pierced with arches and gilt with floral entrelac
9¼in. (23.5cm.) diameter (6)

Lot Essay

See Hans Syz, et al. The Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 177 and the Stanley Ungar Collection, Christie's, New York, 23 April 1998, lot 106 for 18th century Meissen examples painted with variations of the drunken dinner table scene 'A Midnight Conversation' after Hogarth.

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